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[单项选择]It may be just as well for Oxford University’s reputation that this week’s meeting of Congregation, its 3,552-strong governing body, was held in secret, for the air of civilized rationality that is generally supposed to pervade donnish conversation has lately turned fractious. That’s because the vice-chancellor, the nearest thing the place has to a chief executive, has proposed the most fundamental reforms to the university since the establishment of the college system in 1249; and a lot of the dons and colleges don’t like it.
The trouble with Oxford is that it is unmanageable. Its problems-the difficulty of recruiting good dons and of getting rid of bad ones, concerns about academic standards, severe money worries at some colleges-all spring from that. John Hood, who was recruited as vice-chancellor from the University of Auckland and is now probably the most-hated antipodean in British academic life, reckons he knows how to solve this, and has proposed to reduce the power of do
A. enthusiastic support
B. slight contempt
C. strong disapproval
D. reserved consent
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It may be just as well for Oxford University’s reputation that this week’s meeting of Congregation, its 3,552-strong governing body, was held in secret, for the air of civilized rationality that is generally supposed to pervade donnish conversation has lately turned fractious. That’s because the vice-chancellor, the nearest thing the place has to a chief executive, has proposed the most fundamental reforms to the university since the establishment of the college system in 1249; and a lot of the dons and colleges don’t like it.
The trouble with Oxford is that it is unmanageable. Its problems-the difficulty of recruiting good dons and of getting rid of bad ones, concerns about academic standards, severe money worries at some colleges-all spring from that. John Hood, who was recruited as vice-chancellor from the University of Auckland and is now probably the most-hated antipodean in British academic life, reckons he knows how to solve this, and has pr
A. enthusiastic support
B. slight contempt
C. strong disapproval
D. reserved consent
[填空题]Oxford University once famously claimed to have been founded by Alfred the Great in the 9th Century, (1) , the University as we know it today began to take shape in the 12th Century when English Scholars were exiled from (2) and began to congregate at Oxford’s Abbeys and Priories, which were (3) already established centers of learning.
Today, 39 independent, (4) colleges are related to the University in a type of federal system. Each is (5) by a Head of House and a number of Fellows, who are academics specializing (6) disciplines.
Across both the Arts and the Sciences, Oxford research consistently ranks top both (7) . As well as being in the forefront of scientific, medical and technological achievement, the University (8) research institutions and industrial concerns both in the United Kingdom and overseas. The University’s great age also allows its (9) and research students
